Mission Australia

1. Our Response to Commonwealth Gov Discussion Paper - National Mental Health & Disability Employment
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... and mental health. There is strong evidence that many people with a disability or mental illness are currently excluded from the Australian community in a range of areas of their life. This has both individual ...

2. Strange Bedfellows - Integrated Clinical & Non Clinical Programs at a Residential Treatment Program
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This paper aims to present Triple Care Farm’s (TCF) integrated treatment model and explore the model’s effectiveness as an integrated treatment program for young people with complex AOD and MH needs, evidenced ...

3. Pathways to Prevention Project
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Australia-first study shows achievements of groundbreaking early-intervention program. The most comprehensive analysis of a major Australian early intervention program has provided clear evidence it reduces ...

4. State and Territory governments must set targets to reduce numbers of young people in detention
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... engaged in reviews of their approaches, but elsewhere it appears governments seem happy to lock young people up in increasing numbers – despite all evidence showing it doesn’t work. “There are around ...

5. We must act now to save a lost generation
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... Working package but we need something that has a stronger youth focus.” Australia should build a national mentoring strategy into its youth agenda. Mission Australia has good evidence about what works ...

6. NSW/ACT Volunteer Opportunities
(Volunteer/Volunteer Opportunities)

... evidence can often mean reliving a traumatic experience. Mission Australia Court Support Service aims to help minimise the potential negative effects for victims attending court. If you are interested ...

7. Frequently Asked Questions
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... evidence such as birth, death and marriage certificates. These can sometimes be difficult to obtain if the events took place overseas or the details are unknown. If you die intestate, you will not have ...

8. Early Learning Services - Key goals
(Early Learning Services/Early Learning)

... parenting and managing the demands of everyday life is challenging. For this reason we aim to: Provide parents with support, encouragement and evidence based parenting information in order to assist ...

9. Mission Australia to build $16M Aged Homeless Service as number of elderly homeless climbs
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... needs from those accessing mainstream aged care or homeless services and so the new building has been designed with this in mind. “The designs draw on the best practice, research, and evidence in both ...

10. When Gambling is No Longer Fun
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... Commission is conducting another gambling enquiry and it could scarcely come at a more important time. Problem gambling doesn’t suffer during a downturn, quite the opposite – the anecdotal evidence is ...

11. The big issues facing our kids
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... need re-evaluating. From our survey, we know that concern about drugs drops significantly among older teens while other evidence shows illicit drug use goes up. Close to 19 per cent of 16- to 17-year-olds ...

12. The welfare experiment - an opinion piece from Mission Australia's CEO, Toby Hall
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... programs – they’re based on sound research and we have the evidence to prove they work. Income quarantining trials may only be in their early stages, but at the moment we don’t have any solid evidence ...

13. Latest homeless figures reflect 'wasted years of inaction'
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Today’s release of the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ 2006 Census of homeless people confirms the failure of past homeless policies and is evidence why a dramatic new approach to tackling the problem ...

14. Mission Australia's Michael Project for the homeless launched today
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... mental health and drug/alcohol use in addition to providing a cost-benefit analysis. There is a lack of hard evidence, particularly in Australia, about ‘what works’ to help people out of homelessness. ...

15. Australia needs national uniformity on early childhood education and support
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... in public education into pre-schools – that’s compared to the OECD average of 7.2% - despite the overwhelming evidence of its benefits. This has got to change. “It may be seen by some as mere symbolism, ...

16. Growing numbers of grandparent-carers evidence of emerging social phenomenon
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One of Australia’s leading community service organisations, Mission Australia, has called for increased government and community action to help manage the emerging social phenomenon of grandparents taking ...

17. Supporting Tasmanian communities for children
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... and international evidence confirms that the early years of a child’s life are critical to their future development and it is at this time that a child’s brain is rapidly developing and the foundations ...

18. Australian-first study shows achievements of ground-breaking early intervention program
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 The most comprehensive analysis of a major Australian early intervention program has provided clear evidence it reduces problem behaviour in young children, strengthens families and fosters positive ...